the greatness guide

Book by Robin Sharma

 

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* work gives meaning to our lives

*Ask your sweetheart at hom for more love….. And rememeber, you can’t win a game that you don’t  even play.

* I make the time to think….

* thinking and reflection

* there is nothing so useless as dooing efficiently that which should not be done at all

* sense of your priorities

* you need to touch their hearts

* focus plus daily improvement plus time equals genius

* sensory acuity

* the essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

* there is no such thing as an average human being; if you have a normal brain, you are superior.

* being a leader – is a lonely act

* the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. but the second best time is today.

* if you have not discovered something you are willing to die for; then you are not fit to live.

* journaling

* what you’re doing speaks so loudly i cannot hear what you are saying

* the integrity gap

* your schedule is the best barometer for what you tuly value and believe to be important.

* the price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret

*swan effect

*grace under pressure

* the first responsibilty of a leader is to define reality. the last is to say thankyou

* life has a very fair accounting system

* die daily

* your funeral will be a celebration

* give yourself one day to play victim

* humans crave certainty

* the fears you dont own will own you

* under promise and over deliver

* leave people better than you found them

* few of write great novels –  but all of us can live one

* a plan relieves you of the torment of choice

* what gets measured gets improved

* boomerang effect

* do good and leave behind a virtue that the storm of time can never destroy

* emotional blueprinting